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PEOPLE v. STROUD

No. 94823.

804 N.E.2d 510 (2004)

208 Ill.2d 398

281 Ill.Dec. 545

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Bennie STROUD, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

January 23, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Ryan and Lisa Madigan, Attorneys General, Springfield, and Edward D. Smith, State's Attorney, Kankakee (Gary Feinerman, Solicitor General, Lisa Anne Hoffman, Russell K. Benton and Linda Woloshin, Assistant Attorneys General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, John X. Breslin and Richard T. Leonard, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Ottawa, of counsel), for the People.

Robert Agostinelli, Deputy Defender, and Carrie B. Marche, Assistant Defender, of the Office of the State Appellate Defender, Ottawa, for appellee.

Justice THOMAS delivered the opinion of the court:

This case presents the question of whether defendant's constitutional right to be present at his guilty plea hearing was violated when the circuit court accepted his plea via closed circuit television. Under the facts presented by this case, we hold that it was.

BACKGROUND

On March 23, 1998, defendant, Bennie Stroud, entered a negotiated plea of guilty...

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